{"product_id":"9780733626845","title":"The Moonlight Stallion: And other yarns from the Australian outback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book of bush tales vividly evokes an era now gone, when people struggled in isolation to tame the land and when camaraderie and mateship were everything.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoung Brian Taylor was a ringer on Queensland cattle stations some fifty-five years ago. He worked on huge properties where the big mobs used to run and many of the people he met there had a larger-than-life quality. There was Dangerous Dan Smith, a hard, self-reliant man who wrote bush poetry; Father Peter, a gentle parish priest and occasional hero; and Charlie Gibson, an aboriginal stockman utterly at home in his own country. And then there was the landscape - the plains and rivers and mountains - that shaped the lives of them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Moonlight Stallion\u003c\/i\u003e is Brian Taylor's second collection of reminiscences about a vanishing way of life in outback Australia - about people, wild and working animals, and country. Readers of \u003ci\u003eThe Brumby Mare\u003c\/i\u003e have been clamouring for more and new readers, whether from the bush or the city, will be moved to laughter and to tears by these heartfelt stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A quintessential Australian bushman, Brian Taylor has spent most of his life on the land. Working as a drover, a stockman, a fencer, a shearer and a saddler, he has gathered a lifetime of stories over the years as he travelled way out past the Barcoo, along dusty plains and beside dry creek beds under the endless southern sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso available, together with \u003ci\u003eThe Brumby Mare\u003c\/i\u003e, as the single volume \u003ci\u003eA Swag Of Memories: Australian Bush Stories\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46501876728049,"sku":"9780733626845","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9780733626845_p0.jpg?v=1765532028","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780733626845","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}